Maybe a topic?

[Alan Garrison]

The "Install Comparison Fest" sounds nice, but perhaps this 
should be done at an actual Installfest.  Since distros 
change almost on a monthly basis nowadays (except Debian ;) 
the setup tools will be constantly changing.  Mandrake 7.0 
and 7.1 were a bit different, so its not only the distro, 
its also the version.

For this Sunday, how about we stick to a demo install of 
FreeBSD with some basic networking thrown in (since Ed 
probably does this even in his sleep).  <note next 
paragraph though>

   ATTENTION LURKERS AND NEWBIES!

Would any lurkers and other newbies on the list who haven't 
attended a meeting feel more comfortable showing up if we 
had a full meeting dedicated to just Q&A stuff?  Every 
meeting is really a newbie Q&A meeting, but (as Ben suggested)
we could have an entire meeting for this.  Please post 
your thoughts.  I would simply get more people involved 
with the meetings, or at least on the mailing list.  



>>> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> 07/24/00 11:26AM >>>
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Alan Garrison wrote:
> Sounds good to me.  Are you sure you can get something 
> together by Sunday?  BTW, as mentioned, I do have 
> the 4.0 FreeBSD CD set if the network install option is not 
> available.

Not much preparation involved in doing a FreeBSD install really, I
think I've done enough of them... ;)  (Famous last words!!!! ;) )

I could do the firewall one if I take a quick look at the firewall
commands for Linux.  Anyone know if they're changing again in 2.4?
I think that's why I don't have a firewall on my box at home, they
changed the firewall between 2.0 and 2.2, and I thought they were
changing it again for 2.4...  I think this one would be easier on
short notice than finding a known-good box to install FreeBSD on,
and it would allow Adam to do the FreeBSD install if he wanted, since
that one was kinda his idea anyways.

What might be interesting is to do an "Install Comparison Fest."
Have Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Corel, TurboLinux, FreeBSD, Solaris
etc. all rapid-fire installs, take maybe 10-15 minutes each to go over the
setup tools for each one, point out the good and bad and let everyone
see what the different distributions are like to get going.  In an hour,
we could probably cover 4 different distros, maybe do a 2-part series,
half one week, half the next so we can cover some of the more obscure
ones.


-- 
Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu 
Network Services		
Michigan State University	

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